The words "soul" and "spirit," can clearly be felt as we apply the concepts of "merging" and being "at one" with nature.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.
~ Osho ~
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~Lao Tzu
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Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
~ Albert Einstein, 1950 ~
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
~ Anne Frank ~
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
~ Anton Chekhov, author ~
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It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful,
and gives birth to imagination.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be
evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than
we seem to be showing right now.
~ Amory Lovins ~
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself."
~ William Blake ~
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See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
we need silence to be able to touch souls.
~ Mother Teresa
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
~ Walt Whitman
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
~ Quote by - Galileo Galilei
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This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
~ Margaret Lindsey
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
~ Quote by - Sir John Lubbock
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
~ Albert Einstein
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Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings
~ William Cullen Bryant
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The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness
~ John Muir
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Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God. ~ ~ Richard Selzer
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Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
